A I..the movie

[melancholymecha]

I loved the movie, its what inspired my username.

my favorite scenes was all the stuff with Gigolo Joe. I loved Joe, he deserved his own movie dammit!

 

[davejames]

Actually I wanted to see more of Gigolo Jane. Ashley Scott looked REALLY damn good in that black leather outfit.

 

[ST-One]

I don't understand the need to over-analyse the use of technology or how things work in that film; it's a fairy tale.

And like a good fairy tale it has a sad ending (much like The Little Mermaid - who also dies after getting here wish granted and also not getting was she wanted)

 

[Sephiroth]

was there even realy a point to this movie, it seems like they took a few different directors, isolated them, made them shoot the same general concept of a real downer of a film to begin with, than spliced in half of one of the directors works into the others at random intervals

 

[selina]

I haven’t read every single post, but here are nevertheless my thoughts:

I love "A.I.". I even wrote my master's thesis about it. If the ending of the movie is a happy ending or not depends very much on how you "read" the movie. For me, it wasn't.
The conflict of the movie is established very early: It's all about the qustion wether or not there should be robots with the ability to love and if humans could deal with the responsibility that arises from that. And the answer the movie gives - at least for me- is: No, humans are incapable. They fail on every level in this movie. They destroy the planet, they destroy themselves. Davids human mother clearly wasn’t up for the task to “raise” both, her own boy, and David. Both parents were afraid of David or at least saw danger in him. They couldn’t treat him as someone equal. He was always just a machine for them. So, instead of working through their problems, they just “dumbed” him, even though David had real feelings. But because David was programmed the way that he sought his mother’s love he went on a journey in order to find it. And when he finally saw his mother again in the future, all he got is a “faked” love, because the real mother has died centuries ago. Future-Monica was just a copy. So her love is an illusion.

 

[firehawk12]

That's basically how I read the ending. I didn't know that people even considered that ending to be "happy" or Spielberg's attempt to wrap up the story with a nice bow.